A Japanese boxwood and ivory rat and mokugyo bells okimono, 19th century

A Japanese boxwood and ivory rat and mokugyo bells okimono, 19th century
carved in the form of eleven rats clambering on four mokugyo bells, beside the sticks, the bells in the form of confronting serpents with eyes inlaid in ivory and horn, the rats with horn inlaid eyes, three signed inlaid ivory tablets and an incised signature -- 5 3/16in. (13.2cm.) wide.